Speakers and trainers

Speakers of BSides Kerala 2025

Manoj Abraham IPS

[Keynote Speaker] Additional Director General of Police (L&O), Architect of Kerala police Cyberdome and c0c0n.

Col. Nidhish Bhatnagar (Retd.)

Founder of Abhayada Consultancy Services, Decorated Indian Army veteran and Ex. Director (SITAICS) at Rashtriya Raksha University.

Sunil Varkey

CISO, CTO, Former Wipro Fellow, Writer, Speaker, Mentor, Cyber Evangelist

Manu Zacharia

InfoSec Evangelist with 25+ years of experience, CEO of HackIT Technology and Advisory Services, founder of c0c0n.

A Balakrishnan

Executive Director at Geojit Financial Services Ltd.

Anant Shrivastava

Chief Researcher and Founder at Cyfinoid Research, Trainer/Reviewer at BlackHat, CFP Reviewer at DEFCON Villages/BSides/Nullcon

Sony A

Chief Information Officer at South Indian Bank

Johnson Jose

Group President and Chief Technology Officer at Federal Bank.

Vandana Verma

Security relations leader at Snyk, OWASP Board of Directors

Dr. A Shiju Rawther

Head of Information Technology at SBI Mutual Fund

John Varughese

General Manager at Dhanlaxmi Bank

Adarsh Nair

Director and Global Head of Information Security Compliance at UST

V V Jacob

Senior General Manager, Systems at Malayala Manorama Co. Pvt. Ltd.

Georgie Kurien

Chief Information Security Officer at SecnSure

Ajith Balagopal

Vice President Enterprise Services and Cyber security at Envestnet, Inc.

Deepu S

Chief Information Security Officer at Muthoot Microfin Ltd

Shubham Mittal

Co-founder and CEO of RedHunt Labs, Review Board Member at BlackHat and co-founder of Recon Village at DEF CON

Aravind C Ajayan

Sr. Security Engineer at Philips Innovation Campus (Independent)

Kartik Lalan

Sr. Security Engineer at Philips Innovation Campus (Independent)

Vishal Raj

Security Researcher at Altered Security

Season Cherian

Lead, Hardware Security Research at Traboda Cyber Labs

Sreesankar S

Hardware security researcher at Traboda CyberLabs

Aastha Aggarwal

Security Engineer at Flipkart

Upasana Raghav

Security Intern at Flipkart

Rakesh Sharma

Practice Manager at Optiv Security

Aditi Bhatnagar

Founder of Offgrid Security

Veerababu Penugonda (Mr-IoT)

Founder at IoTSRG

Mohammed Saqeeb Shariff

Senior Specialist at SISA

Akilesh Kumar

Security Researcher at Traboda CyberLabs

Akhil G Varrier

Security Engineer at Traboda CyberLabs

Rajarshi Patra

Security Researcher at Traboda Cyberlabs

Aadesh Shinde

Threat Researcher at BforeAI

Saroj Shandiliya

Security Trainee at Flipkart

Gundavarapu Sri Sowmya

Security Intern at Flipkart

Singaravelu Ambikapathi

Senior Software Engineer

Arun S

Principal Security Architect at IBM

Rahul Sunder

Security Engineer at CRED

Aneesh Nadh

Security Engineer at CRED

Fahad Faisal

Security Researcher / Bug Bounty Hunter